{"id":15779,"date":"2012-07-23T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15779"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:03:29","slug":"dennis-rodman-sees-his-father-after-42-year-estrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15779","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Rodman Sees His Father After 42-Year Estrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA star <strong>Dennis Rodman<\/strong> has finally met his estranged father after 42 years of separation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philander Rodman, Jr<\/strong>, who has acknowledged fathering 29 children by 16 mothers, attended his son\u2019s exhibition game in the Philippines last week. He said he was happy and surprised that his son agreed to meet him late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to meet the basketball \u2018Hall of Famer\u2019 during another game in Manila in 2006. \u201cIt was great,\u201d he said of the first time he held his son\u2019s hands since they last met in December 1969. \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to meet him for years.<\/p>\n<p>During a break, with se-conds left to the end of the game, <strong>Dennis Rodman<\/strong> grabbed a microphone, acknowledged his father\u2019s presence and pointed to him in the arena. The crowd applauded as the elder <strong>Rodman<\/strong> stood up wearing a red baseball cap that said \u201cYes,<strong> Dennis Rodman<\/strong> is my son.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has finally met his estranged father after 42 years of separation. Philander Rodman, Jr, who has acknowledged fathering 29 children by 16 mothers, attended his son\u2019s exhibition game in the Philippines last week. He said he was happy and surprised that his son agreed to meet him late Wednesday. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}